There was an article I read on the BBC website that featured a woman's musings about not putting too much stock in the world's financial markets to bail us out of trouble. Quite right as well, as the so-called credit crunch and the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage fiasco have gone to prove.
But it was a photo of a Christian museum in the USA that caught my eye. This museum deals with the wonderment which is the miracle of Creation. However there was something else. On a wall were three statements. The third was the one that interested me and hopefully you. It stated that when we die we will be with God for eternity.
This got me thinking. To be with God in heaven is truely a wonderful thought, yet to get there we have to die. Also it is God who decides whether or not we go to heaven. So if heaven awaits us all, why is it that we have to live a lifetime here on the earth with all the problems of life that affect us all? In addition why do people cry and wail when someone dies if they are going to a better place? Surely we should be happy as can be, yet many don't act like that.
Further, have you thought of this? If Adam had not sinned, had not gone against God's directions, he, along with his descendants, would be alive today and no-one would be going to heaven, there would of been no need as all could live forever here on the earth which was God's original purpose and Jesus would not of needed to come to earth to do the things he did and so on.
Interesting is it not? Perhaps if you think about it carefully you may begin to understand that God's plan for the earth is still on. That is to have faithful people serving him here and in heaven. For the Bible says the earth was formed to be inhabited, to exist for ever, and not as some kind of Godlike folly. With all that is bad in the world both naturally and man-made, it's wonderful to think that God wants it to be so different and you and I can play a role in making it a reality.
But it was a photo of a Christian museum in the USA that caught my eye. This museum deals with the wonderment which is the miracle of Creation. However there was something else. On a wall were three statements. The third was the one that interested me and hopefully you. It stated that when we die we will be with God for eternity.
This got me thinking. To be with God in heaven is truely a wonderful thought, yet to get there we have to die. Also it is God who decides whether or not we go to heaven. So if heaven awaits us all, why is it that we have to live a lifetime here on the earth with all the problems of life that affect us all? In addition why do people cry and wail when someone dies if they are going to a better place? Surely we should be happy as can be, yet many don't act like that.
Further, have you thought of this? If Adam had not sinned, had not gone against God's directions, he, along with his descendants, would be alive today and no-one would be going to heaven, there would of been no need as all could live forever here on the earth which was God's original purpose and Jesus would not of needed to come to earth to do the things he did and so on.
Interesting is it not? Perhaps if you think about it carefully you may begin to understand that God's plan for the earth is still on. That is to have faithful people serving him here and in heaven. For the Bible says the earth was formed to be inhabited, to exist for ever, and not as some kind of Godlike folly. With all that is bad in the world both naturally and man-made, it's wonderful to think that God wants it to be so different and you and I can play a role in making it a reality.
